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Author : Frances Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897725900
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (259 download)
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway in 100 Documents written by Frances Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855906
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Salt written by Christopher A. Whatley and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland's oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along the country's coastline and are reflected in many of Scotland's placenames. The industry was a high-status activity, with the monarch initially owning salt pans. Salt manufacture was later organised by Scotland's abbeys and then by landowners who had access to the sea and a nearby supply of coal. As salt was an important source of tax revenue for the government, it was often a cause of conflict (and military action) between Scotland and England. The future of the industry – and the price of salt for consumers – was a major issue during negotiations around the Union of 1707. This book celebrates both the history and the rebirth of the salt industry in Scotland. Although salt manufacturing declined in the nineteenth century and was wound up in the 1950s, in the second decade of the twenty-first century the trade was revived. Scotland's salt is now a high-prestige, green product that is winning awards and attracting interest across the UK.
Author : Ann Lingard
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788853458
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Fresh and the Salt written by Ann Lingard and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautiful, intensely visual prose, born from deep intimacy with subtle borderlands: land and sea, England and Scotland, people and environments.” —David Gange, author of The Frayed Atlantic Edge Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly influenced by their waters and shores. The Solway Firth—the crooked finger of water that both unites and divides Scotland and England—is a beautiful yet unpredictable place and one of the least-industrialized natural large estuaries in Europe. Its history, geology and turbulent character have long affected the way its inhabitants, both human and non-human, have learnt to live along and within its ever-changing margins. “Lingard’s scientific knowledge of the area and its multitudinous inhabitants [is] delivered in riveting prose. This is deep and beautiful natural history writing.” —BBC Countryfile Magazine “Like a hungry gull, Ann Lingard explores her beloved Solway shoreline for every living detail that catches her eye. In so doing she has created a portrait of this nation-cleaving water that is as broad and deep as the estuary itself.” —Mark Cocker, author of Birds & People “A kaleidoscopic portrait of the borders of the land.” —Cumbria Life “Lingard writes vividly about this estuary . . . an excellent point of reference for locals, visitors and for those simply intrigued by this lesser-known corner of Scotland.” —Scottish Field
Author : Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019884624X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns written by Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature Gerard Carruthers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns.
Author : Herbert Maxwell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447486862
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway written by Herbert Maxwell and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work on Scottish history is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the history of Dumfries and Galloway from A.D. 79 onward. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in Scottish regional history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290063241
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway written by Sir Herbert Maxwell and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Rose Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474461905
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh History of Reading written by Rose Jonathan Rose and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesShows the experiences of ordinary readers in Scotland, Australasia, Russia, and ChinaExplores how digital media has transformed literary criticismPortrays everyday reading in art Includes reading across national and cultural linesCommon Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, workers in Czarist Russia, schoolgirls in rural Australia, farmers in Republican China, and forward to today's online book discussion groups. Chapters in this volume explore what they read, and how books changed their lives.
Author : Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions and Journal of Proceedings written by Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dobson
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806353872
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Scotland During the Plantation of Ulster written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is designed as an aid to family historians researching their origins in Ayrshire"--P. v.
Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (389 download)
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway written by Sir Herbert Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell, Sir
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297970665
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A History of Dumfries and Galloway written by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Sir and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James G. Leyburn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888915
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Scotch-Irish written by James G. Leyburn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.
Author : Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031305780X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book George Washington's War on Native America written by Barbara Alice Mann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolutionary War is ordinarily presented as a conflict exclusively between colonists and the British, fought along the northern Atlantic seacoast. This important work recounts the tragic events on the forgotten Western front of the American Revolution—a war fought against and ultimately won by Native America. The Natives, primarily the Iroquois League and the Ohio Union, are erroneously presented in history texts as allies (or lackeys) of the British, but Native America was working from its own internally generated agenda: to prevent settlers from invading the Old Northwest. Native America won the war in the West, holding the land west and north of the Allegheny-Ohio River systems. While the British may have awarded these lands to the colonists in the Treaty of Paris, the Native Americans did not concur. Throughout the war, the unwavering goal of the Revolutionary Army, under George Washington, and their associated settler militias was to break the power of the Iroquois League, which had successfully held off invasion for the preceding two centuries, and the newly formed Ohio Union. To destroy the Natives in the way of land seizure, Washington authorized a series of rampages intended to destroy the League and the Union by starvation. Food, livestock, homes, and trees were destroyed, first in the New York breadbaskets, then in the Ohio granaries—spreading famine across Native lands. Uncounted thousands of Natives perished from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio. This book tells how, in the wake of the massive assaults, the Natives held back the American onslaught.
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward J. Cowan
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852532
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Dumfries and Galloway written by Edward J. Cowan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumfries and Galloway is one of the least-known regions of Scotland. Despite memories and traditions to match those of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, it has been seriously understudied. This innovative, ground-breaking study looks mainly at the everyday lives and culture of people in this region during a period of profound agricultural, industrial and demographic change. In doing so, it uncovers new information about a wide range of topics in local history, including food, festivals and folklore, music, mining, the development of towns and villages, population, smuggling, the experience of migration, and the question of identity. All of the contributors to the book are specialists in their fields and have an in-depth knowledge of the region through life and work.
Author : Joseph Cummings Rowell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Classification of Books in the Library written by Joseph Cummings Rowell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040013333
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Viking and Ecclesiastical Interactions in the Irish Sea Area from the 9th to 11th Centuries written by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different approaches have been conducted to analyse the interactions of the different belief systems in the early medieval world. This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the placement of furnished graves at or near ecclesiastical sites in the ninth through the eleventh centuries. Other areas of funerary studies have moved beyond a dichotomy of Christianity and paganism, acknowledging that practices can be multifaceted. Yet, statements regarding Viking Age furnished graves in or near ecclesiastical sites are still not as pervasively open to this line of thinking. To bridge this gap, this book delves into the historiography and context of the burial practices through multidisciplinary analysis. The ecclesiastical sites and furnished graves of the eastern (southwest Scotland and northwest England), central (Isle of Man), and western (Ireland and Northern Ireland) Irish Sea areas are then examined using various sources to understand their contexts and relationships. In the final chapters, the sites and graves are brought together to identify any trends, any unique circumstances that led to local variances, and their fit into the larger picture. Viking Age furnished graves can be seen as an acceptable variation among an array of burial practices, and the relationship between the clergy and laity is far more complex and closely tied than has been portrayed. Viking and Ecclesiastical Interactions in the Irish Sea Area from the 9th to 11th Centuries will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the history of the Vikings in the British-Irish Isles and their relationships with ecclesiastical institutions.
